URL string

corruption

<?
$news = "www2.truman.edu/~d1514/news.php";
$index = "www2.truman.edu/~d1514/index.php";
$index ="www2.truman.edu/~d1514/about.php";
include $GET['news'];
include $GET['index'];
include $_GET['about'];

?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href = 'news.php'>Stories</a><br>
<a href = 'index.php3'>Home</a><br>
<a href = 'about.php'>About Me</a><br>
</body>
</html>

This doesn't work, i don't know what's wrong

paulnaj

Might help if you let us know what you want to happen.

corruption

i want the page to load not with say www2.truman.edu/foldername/file.php but with www2.truman.edu/index.php?page=somepage.php or
www2.truman.edu/index.php?page=1

paulnaj

I'm afraid I still don't understand. Be a bit more expansive. We can't guess and it's not obvious from your script exactly what you want to do.

I'm not being critical ... I'm just trying to understand.

Here's a description of what's happening at the moment.
I don't know what the file name of the page below is ... so I'll assume it's main.php for the following ...

<? 

// You set up [B]two[/B] variables that don't get used
// later in the script
$news = "www2.truman.edu/~d1514/news.php"; 
$index = "www2.truman.edu/~d1514/index.php"; 
$index ="www2.truman.edu/~d1514/about.php"; // index again??

// Using $_GET implies that three values, {news, index, about} 
// have been sent to this page, usually by a form, but could be a 
// link ... href='main.php?news=blah1&index=blah2&about=blah3'

// Then, the following lines ...
include $_GET['news']; 
include $_GET['index']; 
include $_GET['about']; 

// ... would actually be doing  ...
// include 'blah1';
// include 'blah2';
// include 'blah3';

?> 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Welcome</title> 
</head> 
<body> 

<!-- Here you have three links to pages that don't relate to anything above. -->
<a href = 'news.php'>Stories</a><br> 
<a href = 'index.php3'>Home</a><br> 
<a href = 'about.php'>About Me</a><br> 


</body> 
</html>

corruption

okay so what i wanted to do from the start is start with the index page
something like www.somedomain.com/index.phpthen some link on the page would be for News and one for Information About Me (About), and etc.

What i wanted to have happen is that when i click the link for the News page it would come up
www.somedomain.com/index.php?page=news
or with numbers
www.somedomain.com/index.php?page=1
that's what i was trying to accomplish

I've seen it referred to as query string before, there's a short but difficult to follow tut here...
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=variables

paulnaj

Ok, got you ... here's a start ...

<?php
if(isset($_GET['page'])){
  include $_GET['page'].'.php';
}

?>
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Welcome</title> 
</head> 
<body> 

<a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=home'?>">Home</a>
<br> 
<a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=news'?>">News</a>
<br> 
<a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=about'?>">About Me</a>
<br> 

</body> 
</html>

Note ...

1) $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] returns the full path to the current page.

2) At is stands, if a 'page' is selected, the contents of a file is included at the top of the page ... and then goes on to display the 'menu' again. What is on the the pages that you are including?

Come back if you are still having problems.

corruption

i'm still having problems it won't even display the links let alone the text using

<?php   

if(isset($_GET['page'])){    

 include $_GET['page'].'.php';   

}     

?>   

<html>   

<head>  

 <title>Welcome</title>   

</head>   

<body>     

<p><a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=home'?>">Home</a>     <br>   

    <a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=news'?>">News</a>   

  <br>      

 <a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=about'?>">About Me</a>   

</p> 
 <p><div align="center">
<?php echo Welcome To the Index Page.  This is an Attempt to get rid of horribly long urls  Please be patient as i try this crap
?>  </div> 
 </p>  <p>
<br>           </p>  

</body>   

</html>

paulnaj

First of all, did the code I gave you work?

If it didn't, I'll have a look for typos.

But if it did, then it must be a portion of the code you have added. The way to debug is this:

1) Start with some code that works (could be an empty page).
2) Run the file to make sure it already does what you expect.
3) Add a bit of code.
4) Do (2) & (3) over and over again.

You'll find the reason soon enough, or at least, which bit of code is causing the problem.

dark2k1

I had a problem passing variables to included files. It was really annoying but I came up with a solutions...

$file_name = "whatever.php?page=whatever"; /*this is just an example page to include with a query string */

$file_name = explode("?", $file_name);

$queries = explode("&", $file_name['1']);
for($x = 0; $x < count($queries); $x++) {
$query = explode("=", $queries[$x]);
$_GET[$query['0']] = $query['1'];
}

extract($_GET);

include($file_name['0']);

corruption

yes the code you gave me works as long as long as i don't use <? echo as far as i know so far <? print doens't work either, so how do i use php within the html codes?

philipolson

You may not like my reply but I think you should start over with some very basic PHP tutorials and learn the basics.

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2836/fid/51

corruption

That's a good idea, i wish i had a spare few hours to read through all the tutorials that i wanted to. I'll have to do that at some point, but unfortunately going to college occupies my day from 7am until 11pm or later, especially this semester. I may be taking a class next semester in OOP, and then Internet Programming so we'll see how long it takes me to understand completely.

unfortunately the only programming language our business department has is COBOL which is useful in some situations but surely newer businesses are using more object oriented stuff.